Oracle (Kittie album)

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"An oracle speaks of truth, and sort of foresees the future. This album is a coming-into-our-own album. We've found our own sound, and it's our truth. If you're not feeling in your heart what you're putting in to music, it's not worth a thing-I'm all about integrity, and keeping things pure and true, the way you intended them to be. There is a lot of emotion manifested into this really aggressive, raw sort of album, and it comes out in the music. I found out after we named the album that our ears have an oracle, and so do our hearts-So Oracle pertains to music, emotions, your heart. There's a lot that is intertwined." [32]

Release

Promotion

Artemis Records shipped 400,000 copies of Oracle to stores before its release. [46] Originally set for release on October 30, 2001, [20] its release date was pushed back due to the September 11 attacks. [47] The album was released in Europe on November 12, 2001, [48] and in the United States the day after. [49] The lead single from the album, "What I Always Wanted" was first released as on October 9, 2001. [50] A music video for the song was released later that month; it was directed by Thomas Mignone, and "concerns the self-destructive consequences of greed". [51] The single peaked at number 36 on Billboard 's Active Rock chart, [52] whilst the video received heavy airplay on the MTV, MTV2, MTVX and MuchMusic channels. [46] On January 16, 2002, Kittie released "Run Like Hell" as a digital-only single. [53] That same month, Artemis serviced the Live in Hell EP to radio stations, featuring the song and three live tracks recorded in Detroit. [54] [55] The album's third and final single, "In Winter", was released on May 13, 2002. [56] In addition, Kittie self-financed two live music videos for "Run Like Hell" and "Pain". [57] [58]

Oracle debuted and peaked at number 57 on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 33,000 copies in its first week, [46] [52] before dropping to number 116 in its second week. [59] The album remained on the chart for five weeks, after which time the album had sold 93,000 copies in the United States. [52] [60] The album also reached number 91 on the German Offizielle Top 100 Albums chart, and number 121 on the UK Albums Chart. [61] By July 2004, Oracle had sold 220,000 copies in the United States. [1] Kittie has attributed the album's lackluster performance to a lack of advertising and support from Artemis. [57] [62]

Touring

On September 10, 2001, Kittie performed a one-off concert at the Highbury Garage in London, England. [63] The band then embarked on an international tour in support of Oracle, staring with two tours of North America, from October 21 to November 23, 2001 and December 27, 2001, to January 26, 2002. [49] [51] [64] Ill Niño supported the band on both tours, with No One and Chimaira providing additional support on the second tour. [49] [64] From February 2 to March 2, 2002, the band toured Europe supported by Shadows Fall. [65] On March 18, 2002, Talena Atfield left the band. [66] In Kittie: Origins/Evolutions (2017), Morgan claimed that Atfield "was becoming disillusioned with being in [Kittie]" during the recording of Oracle, [67] and Mercedes claimed that Atfield "wasn't really around [for recording] to the extent Morgan and I were there, and Jeff [Phillips]. Jeff was there the entire time." [68] Two days later, the band recruited Jennifer Arroyo, formerly of the rap metal band Spine, as her replacement. [66] Arroyo and Kittie had first met each other in 2000, when both of their bands played on Farmclub.com . [66]

Arroyo played her debut gig with Kittie in Manchester, New Hampshire on March 29, 2002. [69] [70] From April 7 to April 21, 2002, Kittie embarked on the F.ck Yer Label tour with Skinlab, Flaw and My Ruin. [71] [72] On May 25, 2002, Kittie performed on the Kerrang! stage of the UK edition of Ozzfest at Donington Park, as part of the first (and only) European Ozzfest tour. [73] [74] In July and August 2002, the band toured with Shadows Fall, Poison the Well, Killswitch Engage and Hotwire. [75] [76] [77] In October and November 2002, the band toured with Ünloco, Acacia and Clockwise. [78] [79] Coinciding with the tour, Kittie released the Safe EP on November 19, 2002, which features five live tracks recorded at the House of Blues in Anaheim, California, on August 12, 2002, and two remixes of "Safe" by Sascha Konietzko of KMFDM. [78] The EP had sold 20,000 copies by November 2003. [57] In January and February 2003, Kittie toured the United States with Brand New Sin and Eighteen Visions. [80] [81] [82]

Critical reception

Oracle
Kittie Oracle.jpg
Studio album by
Kittie
ReleasedNovember 12, 2001 (2001-11-12)
RecordedJuly 21 – August 14, 2001
Studio EMAC (London, Ontario)
Genre
Length47:41
Label Artemis
Producer
Kittie chronology
Paperdoll EP
(2000)		Oracle
(2001)		 Safe
(2002)
Kittie studio album chronology
Spit
(1999)		Oracle
(2001)		 Until the End
(2004)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 56/100 [83]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [26]
Alternative Press Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [84]
Blender Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [85]
Robert Christgau Five Pointed Star Solid.svg [86]
Drowned in Sound 9/10 [28]
Kerrang! Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [87]
NME 5/10 [27]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [88]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [34]
Spin 7/10 [89]

On review aggregator website Metacritic, Oracle holds a score of 56 out of 100, based on reviews from eight critics, which indicates "mixed or average reviews". [83] Writing for AllMusic, Bradley Torreano called Oracle "an average album by a promising band who needs to find a distinct identity". [26] Similarly, Tom Moon of Rolling Stone wrote: "Kittie sound like they want to pursue harder extremes but can't decide whether to snicker or snarl, to play doomsayer or dominatrix." [34] Robert Christgau cited "Run Like Hell" and "What I Always Wanted" as highlights and assigned the album a one-star honorable rating. [86]

Hit Parader gave the album a B− grade and wrote, "There's no question that this is a better effort in a technical and song-structure sense than [Spit], but somehow it doesn't seem quite as satisfying". [90] PopMatters praised the album's musicianship and Morgan Lander's vocals, but felt that "its music relies too much on metal formula". [35] Kerrang! said that Oracle was "[t]echnically [...] a great metal record, yet there's barely a riff, shout or double-pedalled beat you haven't heard somewhere else". The review concluded, "you'll be wishing this steel-clawed beast got in touch with its feminine side a bit more." [87]

Imran Ahmed of NME found Oracle to be "plain overbearing", and "a violent marriage of melody and brutality that makes for a highly uneasy listen". [27] Q magazine criticized the album as "one-dimensional" and "uninspired", [88] whilst Ben Mitchell of Blender dismissed it as "Entirely dispensable". [85] Conversely, Alternative Press saw Kittie as having "[moved] from novelty status to bone-crushing legitimacy", [84] and Ollie Appleby of Drowned in Sound lauded the album as "One of the best albums this year, one of the most together albums of the year, [and] one of the most (internally) varied albums of the year." [28]

Oracle placed 20th on Metal Hammer 's "Albums of 2001" list. [91] In September 2008, Hit Parader placed Oracle at number 82 on their list of "The Top 100 CDs of the 21st Century". [92]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Kittie, except "Run Like Hell", written by David Gilmour and Roger Waters. [93]

Standard release
No.TitleLength
1."Oracle"2:02
2."Mouthful of Poison"4:38
3."In Winter"5:32
4."Severed"3:20
5."Run Like Hell" (Pink Floyd cover)4:09
6."Pain"3:49
7."Wolves"3:25
8."What I Always Wanted"3:43
9."Safe"4:12
10."No Name"2:14
11."Pink Lemonade"10:37
Total length:47:41
European limited edition CD (recorded live in Hultsfred, Sweden on June 15, 2000)
No.TitleLength
12."Spit"2:44
13."Brackish"2:54
14."Suck"3:19
15."Do You Think I'm a Whore?"2:21
16."Raven"4:00
Total length:63:07

Personnel

Adapted from liner notes. [93]

Kittie

Production

Artwork

Charts

Release history

Release history for Oracle
ReigonLabelFormatDateCatalog #Ref.
Europe
 CD November 12, 2001504810 2 [48]
United States Artemis CDNovember 13, 2001751094-2 [98]
Europe
CDAugust 16, 2004RCD17026 [99]
Europe Metal Mind CD (digipak)November 24, 2008MASS CD 1244 DG [100]
Various MNRK Music Group LP November 25, 2022MNK-LP-46810 [101]

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